Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMATrying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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